While Trump would prefer to fund the approximately $25 billion needed for the wall “the old-fashioned way — get it from Congress,” he told the Daily Mail that he has “other options if I have to.”

The president is unlikely to get the funding from Congress given Democrats’ obstruction efforts and even recalcitrant Republicans, but “the possibility of diverting Pentagon funding and assets to build a border wall is a hole card the president is holding but has never directly acknowledged before,” Daily Mail reported.